AMPD Ventures co-founder and CEO Anthony Brown said: “By providing this Digital Twin technology to Canadian manufacturers, we will be enabling engineers to achieve the highest level of efficiency in the manufacturing process”
AMPD Ventures Inc revealed that the Digital Technology Supercluster’s Learning Factory Digital Twin (LFDT) project has been extended, while its scope has also grown.
The LFDT project was first announced in March 2019 and aims to apply digital twinning to the manufacturing process of aerospace components, creating “virtual reality versions” or digital twins of manufactured parts, processes, and facilities.
The Vancouver-based next-generation infrastructure company noted that until now creating and finalizing designs for manufacturing facilities has been a costly process. However, the Learning Factory integrates the latest in virtual technologies and leverages AMPD’s High Performance Computing platform, supplemented by LlamaZOO’s Clarity software, allowing for remote facility and equipment monitoring, layout planning, inspection, and training.
This enables users to virtually access and work within full-scale industrial production to create digitally driven, industrial tools, said the company.
“Aerospace manufacturing is another complex process that is now being made easier through advancements in commercial technology and the power of data-driven collaboration with our partners,” LlamaZOO Interactive Inc CEO Charles Lavigne said in a statement.
“We’re excited to see how these advancements have enabled efficiencies in training, maintenance, real-time monitoring and innovation for the LFDT project, and what this next stage holds.”
Meanwhile, Avcorp GM Mike Elvidge said it has been a “great advantage” for Avcorp to collaborate with, and learn from, its digital technology partners within the project.
“Until now our method for assessing workspaces and workflows has been very manual and time intensive,” added Elvidge. “Being able to digitalize, visualize and track both proposed and active processes allows us to experiment with ideas on how to improve and simulate outcomes to find and optimize solutions much more rapidly.”
The sentiment was echoed by Göran Fernlund, who is the President of Convergent Manufacturing Technologies: “This new capability has the potential to revolutionize, scheduling, process control, and quality assurance in aerospace manufacturing. Factory-wide installations of this novel predictive Digital Twin are scheduled for 2022.”
Digital Supercluster CEO Sue Paish said they were excited to see how this innovation will advance aerospace manufacturing in Canada.
“We’re thrilled to extend to our investment in the Learning Factory Digital Twin project. This project is showing how digital solutions can address some of the world’s biggest problems,” said Paish. “We are honoured to support this ambitious endeavor.”
In conclusion, AMPD Ventures co-founder and CEO Anthony Brown, noted that it is a “privilege” to be working with the firm’s project partners at the Digital Supercluster.
“By providing this Digital Twin technology to Canadian manufacturers, we will be enabling engineers to achieve the highest level of efficiency in the manufacturing process,” noted Brown.
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